All posts tagged "European Union (EU)"

Those hoping for another wave of enlargement like that of 2004 will be sorely disappointed by the EU’s “enhanced” and “credible” enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans. Others are deeply concerned by the delineation of two front-runners,...

Françafrique’s days look numbered, as Paris is finally confronting the limits of its recent re-engagement in both Maghreb and Sahel. President Macron seems ready to give up the legacy of his predecessors: the reckless Libyan policy inaugurated...

While not hitting the headlines as frequently as they used to, the Western Balkans still represent a flashpoint for Europe. Recurring authoritarian trends, incomplete democratisation processes, troublesome external influences and a fading EU perspective make the region...

Russian influence in Serbia has been vehemently debated from a number of angles; financial investments (typically loans not grants), the latter’s failure to join sanctions regimes and joint-military exercises such as those of the ‘Slavic Brotherhood’. Yet...

During his first years as Turkey’s leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan spared no effort to re-establish his country’s areas of influence dating back from the Ottoman era. Such Neo-Ottoman foreign policy, who had in the former foreign minister...

Before recently, there was a wide perception that cyber-attacks affect only high-level officials, banks, governments or rich celebrities. After last year’s elections in the US though, a real ‘trickle down’ effect of cyberthreats on ‘ordinary’ citizens has...

In the last few years, international attention focused again on Kosovo. This time, because of its role as a primary source of fighters willing to join the Islamic State and other jihadist groups in Syria and Iraq....

Parliamentary elections in the Netherlands have rarely attracted so much attention from abroad. The quadrennial democratic procedure was described by the foreign press as another point in the global struggle between advancing populism and all others opposing...

The problem with Igor Dodon’s nihilism towards the agreement is not what was stated about it, but rather what was left out. The first two official visits of the Moldovan President Igor Dodon to Moscow and Brussels...

In the last few weeks, Italy has emerged as a pragmatic actor on the Libyan scene, fostering a fresh approach to positively involving Russia to overcome the current political crisis in the Northern Africa country. Moscow is...